Wycombe Abbey · sixth form · summer 2017

2017–19 · Reformed A levels

Wycombe Abbey: comparable sixth form figures, 2017

Qualification only

No figure

A* or equivalent, all sixth-form exams · Comparable figure · our calculation

Wycombe Abbey printed percentages without the number of grades, so we cannot combine its different qualifications. We don’t have Wycombe Abbey’s whole-school Pre-U figure for 2017.

The original grades

A level: 40.6. Subjects and grades

Pre-U: no full grade table in this record

This year’s exams: A levels and Pre-U.

We know because the government’s tables confirm it.

The comparison, the school’s headline and the original grades
Grade bandComparable figure (our calculation)The school’s figure (as the school published it)Original grades
A*–A or equivalent, all sixth-form exams No figureThe school’s own tables don’t give a comparable figure for this year. No combined figure from the school A level: A*–A 84.8%
A* or equivalent, all sixth-form exams No figureThe school’s own tables don’t give a comparable figure for this year. No combined figure from the school A level: A* 40.6%
A*–B or equivalent, all sixth-form exams No figureThe school’s own tables don’t give a comparable figure for this year. No combined figure from the school A level: A*–B

How the figure is calculated

The number of entries at or above the band, across every exam system, divided by all the entries. We never average two percentages.

The results used in the calculation

Record details

Record ID harm:v1:wycombe:2017:sixth-form. Quote it if you report a problem.

As recorded

The record’s own wording, where this page puts it in plainer words.

A*–A or equiv.: reason
Pre-U: no whole-school Pre-U figure is held
A*–A or equiv.: reason codes
comparable figure not computable
A* or equiv.: reason
Pre-U: no whole-school Pre-U figure is held
A* or equiv.: reason codes
comparable figure not computable
A*–B or equiv.: reason
Pre-U: no whole-school Pre-U figure is held
A*–B or equiv.: reason codes
comparable figure not computable
A level: entries
unknown (no entry count printed)
Pre-U: why no figure
no whole-school Pre-U figure is held
Which exams were sat: evidence
A level: 1 school or ISC record (e.g. research:wycombe:2017:a-level:ui-source-pass); 25 DfE rows (e.g. research:wycombe:2017:dfe:subject-ks5-1-a-level-and-as-level-gce-a-level-art-design)
Which exams were sat: evidence
Pre-U: 1 DfE row (e.g. research:wycombe:2017:dfe:subject-ks5-2-other-qualifications-pre-u-principal-subject-french)

Source references

Method and version

Method
harm-v1 1.0.0
Inputs digest
sha256:433f8fc5bb86ba98d16a2df4c524de2efde5145909215292317c0b630558c161
Qualification mix
A level, Pre-U (government-table)

Wycombe Abbey: exam results · How comparable figures work

Figure and sourceOpen full record ↗